Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-08-11
MINN ESOTA.

The mining engineers held session at
Duluth.
-Goodhue county has $4,000 in the
treasury.
The state militia held an encampment
at st. Paul.
A church ut Winnipeg Junction was
turned over by the wind.
Martin county has paid out this season
$4,000 for gopher scalps.
The crops about Waseca have been
damaged considerably by hail.
The festive burglar still keeps up his
nocturnal visits 10 Minneapolis.
"A storm at Moorhead lately reached a
velocity of eighty miles an hour.
The council disbanded the fire COM
pany at Waseca for disobedience.
Rodney Howard, of Tracy, while
herding cattle was killed by lightning.
=. urtis is jubilant over the county seat
decision of the Supreme Court in lis favor.
Frank Thompson was drowned while
attempting to swim the river at st. Peter.
The gospel army made their first ap-
pearancs in Minneapolis few Sundays
ago.
--Winona is confident that the Wirona
and Southwestern railroad project is sure
thing.
John Wagner is in Jail at Hastings on
charge of incest with his 14-year- old
daughter.
-Mankato has voted S45,000 for i'm
provements in sewerage, water-works and
public parks.
Col. Donan and his bevy of southern
bellies are among the attractions Mt the
capital city.
Robert Stewart was arrested at Moor
head for attempting rape on the person of
Mrs. l.. Lewins.
lightning destroyed the barn of J.
Eichmiller, near Augusta; it contained forty
tons of new hny.
Thirteen births, six deaths and five
marriages were given at the health off o in
st. Paul the other day.
The Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic
railroad is said to be backed by the Grand
Trunk and Northern Pacific.
The city council and chamber of COM
merce of st. Paul will extend general
invitation for a Presidential visit.
"A lad named Dunn was accidentally
killed at Mankato by the discharge of q
gun while party were shooting snipe from
toat.
The collections in the customs district
of Minnesota for the year ending June
30,1SS7, amounted to S2O4, 1914, an ex-
cess of s6s.146.79 over last year.
The Forest mills at Eumbrota have
closed and do not expect to open for four
teen months, owing TO the failure of the
wheat crop in Goodhue county.
superintendent Bidwell, formerly Of
the Winona and st. Peter, has been trans
ferred to the Northern Iowa division of
the Chicngo and Northwestern with head
quarters at Eagle Grove.
"a peculiar electric phenomenon oc-
cured at Herman. Lightning struck q
corncr of the Grant county bank building
and passed along the sheetiron roof down
the lightning rod. The building was
slightly damaged and several residents
were affected by the electric current. The
sky was bright and clear and the sun
shining.
: The recent storm became tornado at
Glyndon, wrecking houses and severely
wounding five persons. The wife of Ece-
Lesson Thompson, of Davenport, who had
taken refuge in the cellar, was killed by
lightning. The men who remained up
stairs were uninjured.
In referring to the editorial excursion
which recently visited Duluth, the Para
grapher says "'Veni, vidi, vici,' sang
the editorial excursion gang, as over the
river, along the bay, and through the rain
they sped away, with their names writ
high on the scroll of fame for rs cent
plaster on hunger pain, and along the
inc of the Iron Range they viewed
country new and strange, with the lake for
border and the wood for fringe till the
turn at Two Harbors new scenery brings,
when they traversed for nearly seventy
miles the rock-ribbed hills of our North
ern wilds, some playing cards in the smok.
ing car, some building castles in the dis
lance far, some reading Newson the fleet
ing train, while others just rested their
loadei brain, or dreamed as it were of the
short Hall claws, as he mingled himself
with the Jolly boys, while others with
DANES and maidels fair told Of Drawing
wild beasts in their mountain lair, and for
aueht we know may lead captive game
which afssfssy met % that ae.tlps train,